By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Hamilton Avenue Ferry was established in 1846. It was run by the Union Ferry Company, who also ran the Fulton Ferry at that time. A major destination was a new upmarket cemetery. The ferry offered a “direct approach by way of the Gowanus...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
All was not peaceful on the new Hamilton Avenue Ferry. People, particularly in the evening, were sprawling out across the benches, and extra deckhands were hired to keep the order. One of the directors suggested adding dividing armrests, but the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1890, Mrs. A. M. Hamilton, a widow, was interviewed in Atlantic Basin, and celebrated by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as being equal to any man running a canal boat. Beginning in the mid-1820s, canal boats brought produce from the nation's...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Atlantic Basin Iron Works office and large work shops were located at Imlay, Summit, Van Brunt, and Bowne Streets. They did all sorts of repairs a ship might need including steamship and diesel motors. The main entry for the Atlantic Basin Iron...
This is a cropped portion of an aerial rendering of Brooklyn produced in 1905, from King's Views of New York . The text at the the bottom of the page reads: Busiest shipping-district in the world; N. Y. Dock Co., Atlantic Basin (40 acres), Erie...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The New York Dock Company Railway moved cargo to and from ships, local warehouses and factories. The railway was officially incorporated on October 1, 1912, as a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Dock Company. It was formed...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal (BCT) opened in 2006 in Atlantic Basin, and according to the official website "offers all the services and comforts expected from a world-class cruise facility including 200,000 square feet of flexible...
Railroad dock to be demolished. This dock served floated rail cars from the New York Dock Company, visible in the background. A description of the Governors Island rail system is at ...
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"Steamers Loading Exports in the Atlantic Basin" One of a large series of picture postcards published by the Brooklyn Eagle in the early 1900s. In addition to steamers, numerous barges - both square and Dutch style of rounded ones - also fill...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Floating grain elevators were used to move grain up, out of the holds of ships and barges and then top load the grain into storage bins on land or on other vessels. According to Henry R. Stiles in A History of the City of Brooklyn , Daniel Richards...
